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Safety checks

- [Instructor] Whenever I generate a new NC program, I generally go through and read through the program, and do what I call a Safety Check to make sure the G-code matches what I'm expecting it to be output as. Now generally, if you have a big program, you're not going to be able to read through every single line. But what you can do is, you can take a look at the beginning of each one of those operations, and make sure the right tool is selected, the right H-value is selected, and so on. So let me show you how I do that. So right up here, we want to verify that we do have the right program number. It should always start with a letter O. We can put some information here at the top, and if you use parentheses, you can make any notes right up here at the top of the screen. Directly below that, a lot of post processors will be outputting the tools that are being used in the job. In this case here, I'm using tool one, tool two, tool three, tool 10, and tool 11. And this should give you a…

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